Tag: hypothyroidism

TV Dr is a Present Day “Thyroid” Snake Oil Salesman: Avoid His Show For Your Own Health. He Knows Nothing About the Thyroid Gland or the Diseases. Comments: As a Thyroidologist I am very unhappy with a Popular TV physician and...

Thyroid Ultrasound? You don’t have an indication? Just say No. What are the indications? nodule or goiter Screening ultrasound by GP found this micronodule. Patient with no indications had a biopsy and surgery for nothing...

Higher Free T3 in Males Strich D et al Endo. Practice (23) July 7 2017 803-807 Major findings include higher FT3 in males except very young and very old. It is key to not treat elderly males with lower Free T3 with thyroid hormone as it will...

Thyroid Clinic Physician Takes a ‘Deep Dive’ in A Shallow Pool of Data The use of thyroid from pigs has been shown to be dangerous because of the wrong T4/T3 ratio of 4/1 compared humans 14/1. Thank god they closed this one physicians...

Beware of Thyroid Diet Books and Weight Loss Supplements That Are Not Only Good For Making Money for The Authors and Billion Dollar Supplement Corporations. Just Say No Thanks. This website personality claims to be an expert in thyroid...

The 250 Patients Treated with Pig Thyroid in Digby Nova Scotia Are Better off Without Desiccated Animal. Thyroid. It causes too many complications especially elderly hypothyroid patients. Before synthetic T4 qand modern TSH testing, it was a...

To Take Thyroid Hormone or Not if You are Over 65 and New Mild Hypothyroidism. Waste of money and time? Maybe TENS of thousands of patients taking a common drug to treat an under-active thyroid will get next to no benefit from it, according to a...

Subclinical Hypothyroidism Increased Risk for Miscarriage New results suggest the risk for miscarriage before 20 weeks of pregnancy is higher among women with untreated subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) than among euthyroid women. Researchers of...